“If you listen to Donald Trump, there are these people who run the government from administration to administration and they have completely screwed the world up. There is part of that in our president. There is also a little bit of Hillary, in terms of she’s a pragmatist and knows Washington from the inside,” he tells Hollywood Reporter.

As to what else we can expect from season six, Gansa says: “The most life-altering, country-changing event in the world happened in New York on September 11th. We are still dealing with the reaction to that as a country. Someone might argue there was an overreaction in the aftermath. … Those are the things we’re dealing with this season.”

And – #spoiler! – if you want to know what part Quinn may or may not play in the upcoming episodes, keep reading…

“Quinn is alive,” confirms Gansa. “I can say that much, but we really want to be careful about revealing what his condition is. He suffered a major stroke last season. You are going to see a very changed and altered Quinn this year. I think Quinn, this coming season, will really represent a profound and familiar casualty of the war on terror for our audience. What he endured last year is different from what he’ll go through this year. This year will be suffused with his daily relationship with Claire’s character.”